Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will come back to Deputy Troy in respect of his third question. As regards the tenant purchase scheme, obviously the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government reviews this on a regular basis. It is an important point because once a person is allocated a local authority house and starts to pay rent, a proportion of that money is used as an opportunity to buy out the house in due course. It also provides some revenue, small though the amount may be, to local authorities.

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